First off, let me send out my deepest condolences to the students, their parents, and their friends who were so mindlessly shot on Duquesne’s campus last Saturday evening.

If you’ve ever been to Duquesne’s most unique campus (and most Pittsburghers have NOT, despite the fact that it is literally within walking distance from nearly any place in downtown Pittsburgh), you know just how safe this place looks and feels.

This was just was one of those scenarios which we have become all too “comfortable” with. I don’t know how or why this mindset came to be, but it did reveal itself yet again last weekend.

There can no longer be any argument that life has been greatly devalued in this newest millennium. I’m no sociologist, but one thing that I have thought for a long, long time is that the definition of “frustration” is that gap between what one can achieve and what one wishes he can achieve.

It’s no secret whatsoever that, for so many reasons, our society has become a society where material wealth is far more sought than, say, spiritual wealth.

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